The ability of humans in a prosperous society to create non-existent problems for the sake of... what? ... is a curious phenomenon.

I think we do this purely for the entertainment value and ego fulfillment. For some reason, people recoil in anger from the notion that human needs and desires haven't changed much in thousands of years.

Perhaps, acknowledging that humans remain just about the same for generation after generation forces us to confront our mortality. We don't want to be like our parents in the most concrete way... we don't want to die.

We want to live forever. However, barring a natural revolution, we choose to live in the moment. That's where the problems begin. This childish evolution has promoted a demand for instant or immediate gratification of material, physical, and egoistic dreams. Unfortunately, resources are finitely available and accessible; physical fulfillment has becomes a priority; and chauvinism motivates prejudice.

The corruption sponsored by our progress was predictable and inevitable. It is a property of civilization, and is exacerbated by progressive morality.

Mortal beings pretending to be God will fail. Mortal beings who are bent on domination will become intolerable. Mortal beings without morality will join the Dodo Dynasty. It's ironic that secular individuals are most vulnerable to suffer evolutionary failure.

There's no such thing as gender rights. While we are at it, neither states nor corporations have rights either. Individuals have rights. One of these is the right to be governed at the state level on matters not assigned to the federal government in the US constitution. Another is to associate with other people ( including in the form of a corporation ) without losing their other rights.

Hillary is just trying to judo Obama's poor economic performance into a gender issue.

Clinton, the former secretary of state and possible presidential contender, is one of a slew of high-profile contributors to a new report set to be released Sunday compiled by author and activist Maria Shriver and the liberal Center for American Progress.

“[Fighting] to give women and girls a fighting chance isn’t just a nice thing to do,” Clinton writes in “The Shriver Report: A woman’s nation pushes back from the brink.” “It isn’t some luxury that we only get to when we have time on our hands. This is a core imperative for every human being in every society. If we do not continue the campaign for women’s rights and opportunities, the world we want to live in — and the country we all love and cherish — will not be what it should be.”

Clinton’s essay is part of the book’s broader examination of working women and the economic challenges many confront, a cause she champions in many of her public appearances.

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“I think of the extraordinary sacrifices my mother made to survive her own difficult childhood, to give me not only life but also opportunity, along with love and inspiration,” Clinton writes. “I’m very proud of my own daughter, and I look at all these young women I’ve been privileged to work with or know through [daughter] Chelsea, and it’s hard to imagine turning the clock back on them. But in places throughout America large and small, the clock is turning back.”Clinton points to a wide range of issues, from pay equity to work-family balance to life expectancy, as areas where women in the United States still face problems, though she also nods to gains in “business, academia, government—you name it.”

The report comes as Democrats have intensified their focus on addressing income inequality issues, starting with the unemployment benefits extension currently under consideration in Congress.

“There’s just a lot of facts that are driving this conversation,” said Neera Tanden, the president of the Center for American Progress and longtime adviser to Clinton, in an interview. “Wages have been down, we have the level of inequality that we do, people kind of feel like they’re falling behind … Those concerns are really highest amongst this group of women who are working and still aren’t able to get their heads above water.”

Through her family’s foundation, Clinton has launched “No Ceilings,” an initiative designed to promote women around the world, and a theme that comes through in the essay.